Yarn-winding machine.



H. S. GOLLAND.

YARN WINDING MAGEINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 21, 1909 Patented Feb. 8, 191%.

UNITED STATES PATEN @FFKJE.

HENRY STAFFORD GOLLAND, OF IVIANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

YARN-WINDING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, HENRY STAFFORD Gon LAND, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Dunstan, Eccles, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, merchant, have invented new and useful Improvements in Yarn-VVinding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of yarn winding machine in which the cop is wound in an inverted position upon a counterbalanced spindle, the cop being commenced on a cone placed on the spindle, against which cone a presser cone acts to thrust the spindle upward as the yarn is being wound.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the essential novel features of my invention the frame of the machine and well known parts being omitted as unnecessary.

In my invention I use the known type of spindle a which is suspended from a bracket 6 slidable in a guide 0 and which is also suitably counterbalanced. On the spindle a, before winding is, as usual, placed the cone (Z and a pivoted pressure cone e is employed which cone is preferably placed behind the cone (Z on the spindle as shown in the drawmg.

My invention relates essentially to novel yarn guides and means for actuating the same whereby I am enabled to successfully wind cross wound cops in such machines.

The machine may be fitted with any desired number of spindles and in connection with the row of spindles I provide a fixed bar f on which are loosely pivoted a series of yarn guides 9 one for each spindle. The yarn guides are preferably of metal, say cast steel or other metal and each has a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 21, 1909.

frame 9 the purpose of which will be eX- plained, and a limb or member 9 passing alongside the cone (Z on the spindle a carrying a finger or wire it projecting at right angles to the limb and in front of the cone on the spindle.

Passing through the frames 9 of the yarn guides g is a shaft 2' on which is mounted a pulley or drum j rotated by a band is or suitable gearing from the drum m on the driving shaft 71 of the machine or other revolving part, and on the shaft 2' are threaded eccentrics 0 one for each yarn guide, the eccentrics being placed within the frame of the yarn guide. As the shaft 15 is revolved the Patented Feb. 8, 1910. Serial No. 497,476.

eccentrics acting on the frames oscillate the yarn guides.

The yarn is led up from the bobbin 7) or the like over the breast beam 9 then behind the bar 4" and over a fixed tension bar 8 and down underneath the finger it of the yarn guide, to the cone on the spindle. It is important to so guide the yarn by a fixed tension bar 8 as to direct the yarn below the finger it as thereby strain on the yarn as it is being wound is greatly reduced, as the finger h of the yarn guide presses the yarn down from the thicker portion of the cop nose to the tip thereof during which the strain on the yarn is least whereas when the finger rises the yarn will follow from the tip to the thickest part of the cop nose without being under the influence of the finger of the yarn guide.

The yarn guides are rapidly vibrated on their pivots by the eccentrics and the fingers in front of the cones on the spindles move through an arc of a circle as shown in dotted lines which path for all practical purposes, corresponds to the same angle as the cone on the spindle and to the cop nose as the cop is built up. Therefore the guiding fingers for the yarn can be set close to the cone or cop nose and remain close thereto during their up and down movement which is beneficial to the process of winding. In a machine having spindles at each side. in-

stead of providing each side with the yarn guides 9 one side may have plain guides 27 attached to or formed in one with the guides g at the other side and receiving their vibratory motion from them as shown. The spindles a are provided with wharves a and driven by bands a from the drum m or pulleys on the driving shaft n or other shaft of the frame or by suitable means or gearing. It will be understood that the driving shaft a may be provided with fast and loose pulleys, and that a suitable or well known stop motion for individual spindles may be used.

I declare that what I claim is.

1. In combination in a yarn winding machine a counter-balanced spindle, a cone thereon on which the cop is started, a presser cone to actuate the spindle as the yarn is wound thereon, a shaft, an eccentric, yarn guides g pivoted loosely on the shaft, a frame forming part of each guide within which rotates the eccentric to oscillate the guides, and a finger or wire carried by the yarn guides placed in front of the cone on the spindle to cross wind the yarn thereon substantially as described.

2. In combination in a yarn winding machine a counter-balanced spindle, a cone thereon on which the cop is started, a presser cone to actuate the spindle as the yarn is wound thereon, a shaft, an eccentric, yarn guides g pivoted loosely on the shaft, a frame forming part of each guide within which rotates the eccentric to oscillate the guides, yarn guides 25 formed in one with or attached to the yarn guides g, and a finger or wire carried by the yarn guides placed in front of the cone on the spindle to cross wind the yarn thereon substantially as described.

3. In combination in a yarn Winding machine, a counter-balanced spindle, means for driving such spindle, a cone 0n the spindle and a presser cone to raise the spindle as the yarn is wound thereon, a shaft, yarn guides g pivoted loosely on the shaft, frames carried by the yarn guides, a shaft passing through the frames and means to rotate such shaft, eccentrics on the shaft disposed with in the frames to oscillate the yarn guides g a finger or wire carried by the yarn guides placed in front of the cone on the spindle a tension bar and means to conduct the yarn over the tension bar and beneath the finger h to the cone on the spindle substantially as described.

4. In combination in a yarn Winding machine, a counter-balanced spindle, means for driving such spindle, a cone on the spindle, and a presser cone to raise the spindle as the yarn is wound thereon, a shaft, yarn guides g pivoted loosely on the shaft, frames carried by the yarn guides, a shaft passing through the frames and means to rotate such shaft, eccentrics on the shaft disposed Within the frames to oscillate the yarn guides g, yarn guides 15 formed in one with or attached to the yarn guides g'a finger or wire carried by the yarn guides placed in front of the cone on the spindle a tension bar and means to conduct the yarn over the tension bar and beneath the finger h to the cone on the spindle substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY STAFFORD GOLLAND.

WVitnesses JOSHUA En'rwisnn, ALFRED YATES. 

